Historic Milestone for San Diego's Chicano Park James Chute - U-T San Diego
go to original March 4, 2013

World famous photographer Eriberto Oriol with Forbidden Art LA shares his story on how he picked up the camera. In the process gives us a history lesson on well known Chicano Park in San Diego. Something you won't find in any history class. (urbanmelodytv)

San Diego’s Chicano Park has been entered into the National Register of Historic Places.

The designation, which officially occurred on Jan. 23, recognizes the park for its “critical association with the Chicano Civil Rights Movement and events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of the city of San Diego’s political and social history,” according to the materials filed in support of the park’s entry, which were submitted last year by the California State Historical Resources Commission.

The inclusion on the register also acknowledges the significance of the park’s internationally acclaimed murals, “created by a large groups of artists, including the masters of the Chicano Movement muralism.”

The park, near the intersection of National Avenue and Dewey Street in Barrio Logan (under the east-west approach ramps of the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge), was established April 22, 1970, when residents objected to the redevelopment of previously promised park space into a site for a Highway Patrol substation.

Community members and Chicano activists peacefully occupied the site, ultimately prompting the abandonment of the substation plans and marking a turning point in the local Chicano rights movement.

Read the whole story at The San Diego Union-Tribune

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